Farewell Suze Rotolo

I only read Suze Rotolo's book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir Of Greenwich Village In The Sixties last year but I completely fell in love with her spirit, intelligence and independence. Yes, she was Bob Dylan's girlfriend as he rose to fame and inspired some of his most famous songs but Rotolo was an amazing woman in her own right: an artist and teacher whose political activism and world-view influenced Dylan's and was an integral part of the folk music scene of the early 60s, something she documented so well in her book. So I was saddened to hear that Rotolo had died aged just 67. I'm definitely glad I got to know her a little through her book and she's certain to live on through that, the iconic images like the one above and the many songs that Dylan wrote for her.